Discomfort, discord and discontinuity as data: Using focus groups to research sensitive topics

Culture, Health and Sexuality

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 255-267

  Wellings, Kaye ^a   Branigan, Patrick ^a   Mitchell, Kirsti ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 5644295498     PISSN: 13691058     EISSN: 14645351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/136910500422241     Document Type: Article

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